Harmonic Percolator - Stock Version

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This version of the Harmonic Percolator circuit is a clone of those built in the ‘70s by Interfax. If you would prefer to build the Albini version, you should instead use our Harmonic Percolator - Albini Version pedal guide The HP-1 Harmonic Percolator was a unique fuzz pedal made in very small quantities in the 1970s by Interfax, a Wisconsin-based company. The Harmonic Percolator is a particularly unique-sounding fuzz circuit, and it is most well known for its use by engineer and guitarist Steve Albini of Big Black and Shellac fame. Though it’s largely known to be a cutting, aggressive fuzz, it is capable of a range of sounds including warm, subtle coloration at low settings. There were multiple versions of the HP-1 made, though the most well-known version uses an NPN silicon 2N3565 and a PNP germanium 2N404A. The “Harmonics” control functions as an input attenuator, controlling how much signal makes it into the circuit (all the way down to silence). Turning this control up increases harmonics by creating harder clipping as the input level is raised. The “Balance” control is simply an output attenuator that functions as a volume control for the effect. This “Stock” variant of the HP-1 circuit copies the values used in a the original HP-1 circuit built by Interfax, and tends to provide a more untamed, compressed sound than the Albini variant. See Figure 3 in our Guitar Pedal Footswitch and Jack Wiring article for the recommended footswitch and I/O wiring.